Tweeps revel in the joy of faking it

Twitter has taken off in Australia in recent weeks, aided by mainstream media focus and the Victorian bushfires, drawing in a whole new audience for enterprising Twitter users (aka tweeps) who snapped up the names of some well-known Aussies.

Following in the footsteps of fake Henry Rollins, fake William Shatner and fake Megan Fox comes fake Andrew Bolt, obsessing over former treasurer Peter Costello.

"Peter Costello dropped by for lunch. On the way out he touched me on the small of my back. It was electric," one tweet reads.

And: "Now I've started photoshopping myself into Costello's wedding photos. How good do I like in white? Very."